Dictionary of Policing

by Tim Newburn (Editor), Peter Neyroud

Contemporary policing is developing rapidly and is becoming increasingly professionalized. For practitioners National Occupational Standards, Skills for Justice and the the new PDLP (Police Development and Leaning Programme) have brought a new emphasis on skills, standards and knowledge. Training for police officers and civilian staff working in policing is being significantly upgraded. At the same time it has become more rigorous, with universities and other higher educational institutions playing an increasingly important part in police training - as well as expanding the range of policing courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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384 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

William Henry Timothy Newburn is an academic, specialising in criminology and policing. He was president of the British Society of Criminology from 2005-2008, director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology from 2003-2008 and is currently head of the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Reviews

[Autumn Kearney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book contains approximately 300 entries (of between 500 and 1500 words) on key terms and concepts arranged alphabetically. This is a great book! Just a heads up. This book is written for and by people of the UK. Therefore, I assume that police procedures and terminology are different there than in the United States.